Thursday 27 February 2014

134. A Chance to Test your Word Order Skills

134.  A Chance to Test your Word Order Skills

In this post, I have added below a couple of sentences giving you a chance to test yourself on your knowledge of German word order. Just a couple of things to remember .....

S V P A N A PP I holds good about 98% of the time - you will find exceptions!!! 

The Verb MUST be the 2nd idea in the clause, not necessarily the 2nd word.

Any word / phrase can come first (for emphasis) but the subject follows the verb

In a question, the verb comes 1st

As in English, with adverbs, a general concept precedes a specific idea (tomorrow at 8:00)


QUIZ ... Rearrange into good German word order the following jumbled sentences.

1   kein Auto    mein Vater     hat.

2   ist   der Computer   phantastisch.

3   heute    Wurst und Salat    kaufen     wir.

4   gesehen    gestern   einen guten Film    wir    haben.

5   ich    morgen    ein tolles Buch    kaufen    will.

6   wir     jedes Wochenende   Tennis    spielen.

7   du    schwimmen    gut     kannst ?

8   In Australien   regnet    im Winter    oft    es.

9   ins Kino    mitkommen    nächste Woche   du    möchtest 

10  eines Tages   ihr    wollt   gehen    auf die Uni  ?


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